New Zealand chiropractors threaten academic journal

[Mojo]

The New Zealand Chiropractors’ Association Inc's lawyer has sent a threatening letter to the New Zealand Medical Journal, alleging libel in two articles in their last issue. Full story on David Colquhoun's blog: Chiropractors resort to legal intimidation.

DC's blog also has a link to the splendid editorial response from the Journal’s editor, Professor Frank A Frizelle, which quotes the lawyer's letter, and finishes:

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The Journal has a responsibility to deal with all issues and not to steer clear of those issues that are difficult or contentious or carry legal threats. Let the debate continue in the evidence-based tone set by Colquhoun and others.

I encourage, as we have done previously, the chiropractors and others to join in, let’s hear your evidence not your legal muscle.

Also covered by Ben Goldacre, Holford Watch, jdc325...

 

[Blue Wode]

The Quackometer has a produced a good piece too - accompanied by a particularly relevant radiograph:

http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/08/they-are-bone-doctors-arent-they.html